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Several Patriots players kept to their vows to skip the White House ceremony in protest at Donald Trump's presidency.

A reported 34 members of the Patriots visited the Trump White House on Wednesday in celebration of winning Super Bowl 51.

"These photos lack context", the Patriots' official Twitter feed said. "The photo from Wednesday only showed players and coaches; the 2015 photo showed players, coaches and support staff and has been removed", the correction note said. The tweet compared it with a NY Times photo taken Wednesday with Trump - showing both of the staircases empty.

Despite the Patriots' response, The New York Times received more than 30,000 retweets within 7 hours.

Superstar quarterback Tom Brady, a noted Trump supporter, also missed the event, but he reportedly pulled out on Wednesday morning due to "personal family matters". He said almost 50 players attended the event in 2015 when Obama hosted.

The press secretary, who is a Patriots fan, responded by saying, "I think I got this but thank you".

In any case, the Patriots' defensiveness about their attendance recalled the White House'sangry response to reports that Trump's Inauguration Day crowd was smaller than Obama's in 2009.

A Patriots' spokesperson confirmed to The Independent, however, that more players attended the event in 2015 than 2017.

Players Devin McCourty, Martellus Bennett, Chris Long, Dont'a Hightower and LeGarrette Blount all chose to skip the South Lawn visit for political differences. ".This year, for some unusual reason, the question was being asked at the Super Bowl before the game was played". As for Branch, he toldCNN's Don Lemon, he declined the visit because of sexists comments the President made about women on an Access Hollywood video.

According to an update from the Times, the Patriots said, despite the fewer numbers of players, the team's total delegation was about the same size.

In the face of the USA moves, North Korea said on Friday the state of affairs on the Korean peninsula was "extremely perilous". After referencing Pence's trip, Earhardt asked Trump whether he has ruled out a military strike against North Korea .

She also said that the French government has been weak in its effort to combat terrorism and prevent future homegrown attacks. Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve accused Mr Fillon and Ms Le Pen of cynically exploiting the attack.

Last week, the Berkeley College Republicans said threats of violence forced them to cancel a speech by writer David Horowitz . University officials originally sent a letter canceling the event to a campus Republican group that invited Coulter to speak.

Brenda Haymon , daughter of Godwin, learned that Stephens had killed himself while planning funeral arrangements for her father. His death came almost 48 hours after uploading video to Facebook of himself murdering 74-year-old Robert Godwin in Cleveland.

These recent steps by the Chinese are assessed as part of an effort to "reduce the time to react to a North Korea contingency". North Korea says it is closely monitoring moves by the United States and is fully prepared to respond to American aggression.

Just this week, we learned that she was awarded three trademarks in China-the same day she dined with President Xi Jinping. Under federal rules, she is now prevented from participating in anything that she has a business interest.

During his presidential campaign, Trump called the agreement "the worst deal ever" and vowed to review it once in office. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei said past year that Tehran would respond if the US breached the deal.

She holds 39 major titles, the most amongst active players. "We'll look forward to seeing her when she's back competing again". There have been other Tennis stars who have returned to the circuit after giving birth like Margaret Court and Kim Clijsters .

All three were integral parts of the 2016-17 Stanley Cup and have been forced to miss all four games of the series at this point. During that time, the Blue Jackets have only advanced to the playoffs three times, and they have just three postseason victories.

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